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0:13:15
aeth
I love how they retconned <b> to be "Bring attention to" instead of "Bold"
4:03:15
beach
Good morning everyone!
4:04:14
jgodbout
Technically it is the AM here
4:10:14
beach
jgodbout: www.total-knowledge.com/~ilya/mips/ugt.html
4:10:54
beach
jgodbout: Especially the last paragraph.
4:11:59
jgodbout
Nicely referential
6:04:32
shrdlu68
Does Kennedy Mwenja hang out here?
6:54:02
shrdlu68
Oops, wrong channel.
10:59:58
gabbiel
what is the reason for needing funcall
11:00:41
LdBeth
funcall accepts a symbol and find it’s global binding
11:00:52
gabbiel
why can't the evaluator require either a symbol or a function as the first arg
11:01:19
no-defun-allowed
FUNCALL may also take a function obtained through some other method and calls that, unlike the usual `(fn arg ...)` syntax.
11:01:20
gabbiel
if its a symbol, just use the symbol-function of it, otherwise, apply the function
11:01:51
no-defun-allowed
That is, `(fn arg ...)` is pretty close to `(funcall #'fn arg ...)`
11:03:14
gabbiel
no-defun-allowed: so does my method, my method is better, I still don't see why funcall is needed at all
11:03:37
LdBeth
That’s is, symbol-function cannot get dynamically fbound definition
11:03:43
jackdaniel
gabbiel: imagine fn has no function associated with the symbol, so you evaluate it, and it evaluates to fn2
11:03:59
jackdaniel
now imagine fn2 symbol has no function associated with it, so it is evaluated to fn